Efforts to woo members of the Academic Staff Union of
Universities ASUU, back to the negotiating table may have hit a brick wall, as
executive members of the striking union failed to take part in the inauguration
of the 7-man committee set up by the federal government to renegotiate their
existing agreements.
It was noticed at the inauguration ceremony
held at the Federal Ministry of Education, Abuja on Monday, observed that it
was a one-sided affair as ASUU clearly shunned the event.
Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu who inaugurated the
committee, did so with the presence of the Executive Secretary of the National
Universities Commission NUC, Abubakar Rasheed and members of the renegotiation
committee comprising Prof. Emeritus Nimi Briggs, Pro chancellor, Alex Ekwueme
Federal University, Ndufu-Alike Ikwo who is serving as chairman
The Minister gave the committee a 3-months timeframe to
renegotiate all the previous agreements entered into with ASUU, especially the
2009 pact.
It was earlier gathered that ASUU said they would not be
part of any fresh negotiations, especially when the previous ones had not been
met.
Although ASUU is still observing its month-long warning
strike, part of the conditions that necessitated the strike involves
disagreements in the implementation of the Integrated Personnel Payrolls and
Payment System IPPIS, including the universities revitalization funds which run
into several billions of naira.
Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige who briefed
President Muhammadu Buhari about the ongoing strike recently, alleged that ASUU
and its members have drawn over N90 billion from the government coffers.
Beyond the battle of wits between the two parties, academic
activities in the nation’s universities remain comatose.
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